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Boy, a tiling WM might just blow his mind.

Maybe, but personally I find that terminal windows are the only thing I tend to want to split the screen for. Almost everything else I prefer to run in full screen. If I had a 50" screen or something, I might feel differently, but with two smaller screens the two separate screens offer enough tiling for non-terminal windows.

I was planning on installing a tiling WM when I got my last laptop (I used to use Ion, so I'm used to the concept and wanted to give it another go), but frankly as much hate as Unity gets, once I had Ubuntu installed I realised that with some keybinding tweaks it was sufficient.

To be fair, in your the OP's case at least your editors are included in the terminal category.

For me I find that even on 25" screens full screen is usually too much. I prefer to split at least once for every screen now. It was different when monitors were 4:3, though. I made things full screen all the time and was happy with it then.

I'm not 100% happy with tiling WMs though, tbh. I find their focus on being completely mouseless and minimalist integration-wise kind of limiting.

Ya, it is nice to see mac bois enjoy a tiling wm functionality.

I currently use i3wm + tmux + vim. However, I rarely use tmux splitting due to i3wm splitting.

By any chance do you know some good beginner tutorial for installing + first steps for i3wm on Deb/Ubu?

Arch Linux has good docs on i3wm.

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